Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of them are middleaged, male and intelligent, drawn largely from professions requiring highly conscientious performance (the church, accountancy, medicine, especially psychiatry). They are often single (or if married, childless). They rarely play any musical instrument well themselves. The hi-fi devotee, Dr. Bowes found, "is very frequently of compulsive personality, and tends to go through rituals in the playing of his recordings." What distinguishes the psychopathological addict from the enthusiastic followers of this (or any other) hobby? Dr. Bowes answered: "His tendency to become preoccupied with, and dependent upon, the bizarre recorded sounds . . . combined with the urgency...
...significance, if it succeeds in Sinai and Suez, is broad indeed. As the armed representatives of the will of the U.N., the few thousand soldiers now in Egypt's desert could become the nucleus of a permanent U.N. Police Force--a force which would be an important instrument in giving U.N. decisions the strength...
...room, a thin, taut refugee and his handsome wife sat before an immigration inspector. The man answered questions rapidly. He was a skilled instrument maker. He had belonged to a union-but never to the Communist Party (membership in the Communist Party is the one sin that the inspectors, under the McCarran-Walter Act, can never forgive). What was his religion? The man and his wife paled with fear. "We are Jews," he whispered. The inspector nodded. Down went his hand-to stamp approval on their entry papers. Speechless, the man and wife arose, reached for their children and hugged...
...Said the President on Oct. 31: "We believe these actions [Suez] to have been taken in error, for we do not accept the use of force as a wise or proper instrument for the settlement of international disputes. To say this, in this particular instance, is in no way to minimize our friendship." *The British Broadcasting Corp. taped his speech for later rebroadcasting to Britain...
...spots a vintage model he has never seen before, his eyes glitter with excitement and he examines the old vented tube with the fervor of a doctor hunting a symptom. "Wow," he will say in wonderment. "Look at that plumbing!" Then he places mouthpiece to lip and, if the instrument is not too leaky, ripples out a modernist roulade. One of Composer Brant's finest works is a fond flute dream called Angels and Devils, a concerto for flute and flute orchestra. Now it is on records, soloed by Frederick Wilkins, conducted by the composer and released by Composers...